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"Homouroboros" by Peter Hudson

Resembling a large tree made of steel with 18 life-sized monkeys hanging from it, using strobes at night or viewers by day, a mind trick called “persistence of vision” causes the discrete monkeys to appear animated like a movie at 24 frames per second – and the animation consists of a serpent-like human hand feeding a monkey an apple!

 

At 24 feet tall and 30 feet in diameter, Homouroboros is one of the largest, most ambitious zoetropes ever created.

 

photo: Melissa Alexander

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Taken on June 5, 2008